bruce reed currently president of the domestic -- democratic leadership council, famously served al gore as chief speechwriter when gore was in the senate from 1985 to 1989. became a part of the clinton/gore campaign in 1992, serving as deputy campaign manager for policy, and then for eight years of clinton's presidency, serving as domestic policy advisor or close to domestic policy advisor during the first term and particularly associated with the clinton reforms in the area of welfare reform. and then finally and finally republican in this group today, margaret spellings in terms of this conference, part of her service that's of greatest relevance is that she was bruce reed's successor, if you will, in the george w. bush white house a domestic policy advisor during the first time later, of course, went on to be appointed and customed as secretary of education and in both jobs involve very closely in the development and the enactment and the implementation of a no child left behind act. now, at this point, i'm going to turn things over to the gentleman to my immediate right who's going

bruce reed. he currently is president of the democratic leadership council, up famously serve al gore as a key speech writer when gore was in the senate, 1985-1989. he became a part of the clinton-bork campaign in 1992, serving as deputy campaign manager for policy. and then for all eight years of clinton's presidency, he served as domestic policy adviser, and is particularly associated with the reforms in the area of welfare. and finally, a republican in this group, margaret spellings, who in terms of this conference imparted her service that is that great as rollins -- she is bruce reed's successor in the george w. bush white house as domestic policy adviser during the first term. she later went on to be appointed and confirmed as secretary of education. in both jobs, she worked very closely in the development and enactment and implementation of the new child left behind at. at this point, i will turn things over to the gentleman to my immediate right who is going to conduct a discussion. that

third member of our panel who will be participating in the discussion during this session is bruce reed. he is currently president -- democratic leadership council. he famously served al gore as chief speech writer when gore was in the senate, became part of the clint-core campaign in 1992. and then for all eight years of clinton presidency serve as domestic policy adviser. he is associated with the clinton reforms in the area of welfare reforms. finally in this group today, margaret spellings, who, in terms of this conference, has the greatest relevance is that she was bruce reed's successor in the george bush white house as policy adviser during the first term and was later confirmed as secretary of education. she worked closely in the development and implementation of the no child left behind act. i will turn things over to the telamon to my immediate right who will conduct the discussion and that is my great friend and colleague andrew busch. this is a homecoming of sorts because he got here -- he got his doctorate in government from the university of virginia. he has done great thi